Merry Christmas!!

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

The above quote is by novelist Barbara Kingsolver, but as Ms. Kingsolver was not at Maureen's graduation on Sunday December 7, 2008, we all threw our arms around Maureen instead.

Maureen is now the proud recipient of a Masters of Science Degree from SUNY Albany in Library Science from the College of Computing and Information. Simply put, that means that she is brilliant and sick and tired of school.

Kathleen can be seen awarding the Graduate the Nichols Family Pomegranate Award. Maureen's persistence has been remarkable, as have been her marks and her attitude throughout the program. Her achievement was hard fought and well deserved. It is a remarkable achievement when you think of the number of years of discipline and patience and hard work it took to achieve. If it sounds that I am proud, well... WHAT'S NOT TO BE PROUD OF!

Maureen's tremendous accomplishment of being the first of the Sauvageau/Nichols grandchildren to earn a Master's Degree is something that we can all take pride in and strive toward.